Please vote for your choice of candidate for SIG Chair and SIG Secretary. Their 2 year terms begin at the AERA Meeting in April 2000. Your ballot is enclosed with this RMT. To be counted, send in your ballot by February 15, 2000. You may vote by mail or by email to .... Email voters: include in your email message only the names of the two candidates for whom you are voting.
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Nikolaus Bezruczko
"A MESA graduate, my professional specialization is social
measurement and evaluation consulting. In particular, ability and
aptitude test development to assess visual arts and social
competence. Over the past 20 years, I have extended this expertise
into longitudinal data base analyses. Through experiences with
foundations, universities, and government, I have found social
research ideologically divided and uncommitted to scientific
advances. Antiquated methods are frequently unrelated to
scientific logic. Unless we incite reform, increasing
fragmentation and incoherence of the social sciences will embarrass
and discredit us all. If elected Rasch SIG chair, I will pursue
opportunities to express the strong links between Rasch methods and
scientific thinking emphasizing their necessity for social research
survival. I believe by making our links with scientific tradition
explicit, not only do we model effective scientific practices for
our peers but provide them with a coherent social research vision."
Nikolaus Bezruczko, Ph.D., bezruczko@email.msn.com
Mary Lunz
"I specialize in the multi-facet analysis of performance
examinations. I have worked in Rasch measurement for 15 years,
publishing many papers on oral examination analysis and
computerized adaptive testing. Currently, I serve as
Secretary/Treasurer of the Institute for Objective Measurement. My
goal is to encourage the expansion of the use of the Rasch model
for analysis of education and social science applications"
Mary E. Lunz, Ph.D, MeasResInc@aol.com
George Karabatsos
As an Assistant Professor at the Louisiana SU Health Sciences
Center, my research interests involve developing the mathematical
and philosophical foundations necessary to construct practical,
objective measurement in the health and social sciences (conjoint
additivity, inferential stability). This includes the design,
application, teaching, and publication of better methods for
measuring and verifying the quality of variables in medical
education, health care, and psychology. I have a special interest
in analyzing the current methods, and developing new methods, for
detecting measurement disturbances in Rasch analysis (i.e.,
aberrant person responses, item multidimensionality). My current
projects at the LSUHSC include the development of an evaluation
system designed to measure medical students' patient communication
skills within simulated medical scenarios; the development of
mathematical models to measure the diagnostic decision processes of
medical students within the context of computerized medical
scenarios simulating patient illnesses; the construction of
computer- assisted learning and testing at the LSU Health Sciences
Center; the demonstration and implementation of fundamental
measurement principles to health care services research.
George Karabatsos, Ph.D., gkarab@lsumc.edu
Tom O'Neill
"I am the Psychometrician for the American Dental
Association. I have worked for health-related certification boards
and associations for the last ten years. My professional interests
include performance assessment, computer adaptive testing, and
issues related to cheating. In my view, the most important
contribution that measurement professionals can do for the fields
that they support is to help them to create stable and clearly
understood constructs. Rasch measurement will excel in this arena
over the next 15 to 20 years."
Thomas R. O'Neill, oneill_tom@juno.com
SIG Elections … Rasch Measurement Transactions, 1999, 13:3 p. 701
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